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POLICIES: Government actions designed to affect economic activity and pursue one or more economic goals. Also called government or economic policies. The four common types of policies are: fiscal, monetary, regulatory, and judicial.
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UNDERGROUND ECONOMY Illegal and unreported market transactions and productive activity that escape the watchful eyes of official record keepers. By most estimates, a substantial amount of productive activity takes place in the underground economy of the United States. Of course, these are only estimates because such activity, by definition, goes unreported. If activity in the underground economy is added to official activity in the "overground" economy, then gross domestic product could be boosted by as much as 25 percent to 50 percent, or more. Inclusion of employment in the underground economy is also likely reduce the official unemployment rate by a few percentage points.
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GRAY SKITTERY
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time calling an endless list of 800 numbers hoping to buy either a T-shirt commemorating next Thursday or a birthday gift for your uncle. Be on the lookout for slow moving vehicles with darkened windows.
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More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
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"No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -- Nathanial Hawthorne, Author
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FCLT
Functional Central Limit Theorem
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